
People
We are leading experts in our fields and have a wide range of specialised interests in business analytics, operations, supply chain management and logistics, extractive industries and sustainability. We invite contact from prospective postgraduate research students.
Meet the team
Head of Department

Professor James Aitken
Professor in Operations Management and Head of Department
Academic staff

Dr Rosie Cole
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Dr Karen Dennis
Senior Teaching Fellow in Operations Management

Dr Tillal Eldabi
Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics

Professor Ali Emrouznejad
Professor and Chair in Business Analytics

Dr Masoud Fakhimi
Lecturer in Operational Research

Dr Colin Fu
Senior Teaching Fellow in Business Analytics, Programme Director MSc Business Analytics

Dr Wolfgang Garn
Senior Lecturer in Analytics

Dr Vikas Grover
Senior Teaching Fellow in Management Information Systems

Dr Andrew Hill
Lecturer in Analytics

Professor Gavin Hilson
Professor and Chair of Sustainability in Business

Dr Yanfei Hu
Lecturer in Sustainable Enterprise

Dr Vahid Mirza Beiki
Lecturer B (Assistant Professor) in Operations Management

Dr Philip Murray
Senior Teaching Fellow Operations Management Programme Director BSc Business Management

Dr Abhijit Sengupta
Reader in Business Analytics

Deji Sotunde
Senior Teaching Fellow in Project Management

Dr Mahdi Tavalaei
Lecturer in Business Transformation

Dr Christopher Turner
Lecturer in Business Analytics

Professor Yu Xiong
Chair of Business Analytics; Associate Dean International; Director of Surrey Centre for Innovation and Commercialization(SCIC)
Visiting staff
Name | Role |
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Chris Ibbott | Visiting Professor |
Linghuan Li | Visiting Researcher |
John Owen | Visiting Researcher |
Hong Wang | Visiting Researcher |
Postgraduate research students
Name | Role |
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Athary Alwasel | Postgraduate Research Student |
Estrela Antonio | Postgraduate Research Student |
Daniel Boos | Postgraduate Research Student |
Eleanor Mill | Postgraduate Research Student |
Mohammad Parhizkar | Postgraduate Research Student |
Naveed Akhtar Qureshi | Postgraduate Research Student |
Titus Sauerwein | Postgraduate Research Student |
Oludayo Taiwo | Postgraduate Research Student |
Madeline Young | Postgraduate Research Student |
Jing Yu | Postgraduate Research Student |